Just hours after handing down a ruling confirming that an immigration law in Florida was blocked, a federal judge appeared to issue a reversal of his own ruling. Judge Roy Altman issued an injunction Tuesday, temporarily blocking a key part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) immigration law, which would make it a felony to transport...
Lawmakers in both parties are racing against the clock to secure a bipartisan bill to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) officials after they filed requests for arrest warrants for top Israeli leaders, hoping a forceful bipartisan response from Washington will deter the court’s judges from ratifying the charges in the coming weeks. Congress left Washington on Thursday...
A progressive organization will roll out a mobile billboard campaign blasting independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at this weekend's Libertarian National Convention as he seeks to secure the party's voters. MoveOn Political Action will circulate its "Exposing RFK Jr." billboard truck beginning Friday to tell voters that a vote for Kennedy is a...
Democrats and Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee sparred over food aid on Thursday at the markup of the chamber’s version of the $1.5 trillion omnibus farm bill. The issue set off partisan fireworks at the contentious session, during which representatives from both sides of the aisle took to the dais to extol the virtues...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Louisiana poised to make abortion pills controlled substances Possession of abortion pills without a prescription could soon be illegal in Louisiana after Republicans in the state Legislature passed a first-of-its-kind bill that designates the pills as dangerous...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would make it illegal to share deepfake pornographic images and videos without consent. The legislation, led by Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), is the latest effort to combat the nonconsensual distribution of sexuality explicit deepfakes, which refers to images and videos made...
More than 1 million pounds of aid has reached the people of Gaza through a new U.S. military pier, but incoming assistance across the besieged coastal territory remains far below levels that responders want to see. American troops have helped deliver 1.2 million pounds of aid to Gaza as of Thursday, according to Vice Adm....
A state dinner for Kenya at the White House will count actors LeVar Burton and Sean Penn and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell among its guests. The White House released the names on the exclusive guest list — which also include Don McLean, Huma Abedin, philanthropist Melinda French Gates and "NCIS" star Wilmer Valderrama — just...
Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby was sentenced Thursday to a year of home confinement, followed by two years' supervised release, for federal convictions of mortgage fraud and perjury. U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby handed down the sentence late Thursday afternoon in front of a packed courtroom. She also ordered Mosby to forfeit her...
